To introduce the Web Book of Regional Science it is first necessary to explain the basics of the field of Regional Science. For regional scientists, a region is in most instances a geographical area smaller than the nation in which it is found. So a region might be a city, a county, a group of...

Input-output analysis is a branch of econometrics, and the technical literature in the field draws heavily on the arcana of mathematics. For the beginning student of economics, and perhaps even for some professional economists, the mathematical nature of the literature has been a barrier. The...